Daniel Maskit
About Daniel Maskit
Affiliations
- Digital Domain
- Double Negative
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2005
Daniel Maskit is the team lead for the Digital Domain production support and infrastructure software teams. He is also the lead production support developer. He has nearly twenty years experience in software development, including managing geographically diverse development teams. He has been a visual effects software developer for six years. Educational background includes M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech, and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.
SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2008: Sketches
Conference Contributions
Learning
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Panels
Talks-Sketches
Sessions Moderated
- “A-maize-ing Dynamic Cornfield Toolkit” by Merino, Coony and Mayeda
- “Descent to the Underworld: a Game-Film® project” by Barry
- “Rhythmic Character Animation: Interactive Chinese Lion Dance” by Chen and Li
- “Lava, Lava, Everywhere” by Geiger, Rebours, Sprout and Helms
- “A production tool for terrain generation” by Larsson, Flores, Herman and Wrenninge
- “Animating Waves on the Beaches of Madagascar” by Ramasubramanian
- “Leapin’ Lizards: Anatomy of a Four-Ton Varactyl” by Smith, Ferguson, Sanchez and Wei
- “World space servoing for character animation under simulation” by Wrotek, Jenkins and McGuire
- “Quick transitions using multi-way blends” by Ikemoto, Arikan and Forsyth
- “Automatic splicing for hand and body animations” by Majkowska, Zordan and Faloutsos
- “Anticipating impacts” by Metoyer, Zordan, Hermens, Wu and Soriano
- “Progressive skinning for video game character animations” by Pilgrim, Aguado, Mitchell and Steed
- “BlockParty: modular rigging encoded in a geometric volume” by Smith and White
- “Smart cars: driving the characters in Cars” by Milliron and Behmaram-Mosavat
- “Davy Jones’ beard: rigid tentacle simulation” by Criswell, Derlich and Hatch
- “Acting with contact in Ratatouille: cartoon collision and response” by Cameron, Russ and Woodbury
- “Rivers of rodents: an animation-centric crowds pipeline for Ratatouille” by Ryu and Kanyuk
- “Extracting and parametrizing temporally coherent surfaces from particles” by Shen and Shah
- “An effects recipe for rolling a dough, cracking an egg and pouring a sauce” by Goktekin, Reisch, Peachey and Shah
- “Rat-sized water effects in Ratatouille” by Bruins and Reisch
Other Information
Roles
- Conference Support Committee Member: General Jury
- Panel Presenter
- Talk (Sketch) Moderator
- Talk (Sketch) Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
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